From: ricketts@mysteriesofcanada.com
Assuming that was the '72 series?
On 12 Aug 2005 19:44:48 -0700, "hooky" wrote:
>We were sailing with the US 7th fleet and it was just after we won the
>Canada/Russia series. We were part of the outer screen of destroyers on
>the starboard side of the 7th in the south pacific. We were (as usual)
>being shadowed by some Russian units. As it turned out we were actually
>the nearest ship to a Russian cruiser.
>Her skipper was a very smart man. He sent over a 'hormone b' to HMCS
>Terra Nova, I came out of the citadel on the port side having come off
>watch in the radio shack. The hormone sat off our starboard side and
>one of our bosun's waved her in slowly. She sat over our mortar well
>and lowered a basket. Our people unhooked it and ran it into the
>wardroom right past me, as the hormone stood off and waited.
>After a while a steward came out with the basket again although this
>time it had a carton of players, a bottle or two of Canadian whiskey a
>note(reply) etc.It turned out that the basket originally had some
>salt,bread, vodka, russian smokes and a note from the Cruiser captain
>congratulating us on winning the series.The hormone took the basket and
>took off back to the cruiser.
>Well the yanks went NUTS!!!!! I went back into the CCR and a row of
>tactical mod 28 teleprinters were rattling away. The uhf and vhf nets
>were all alive with .....please explains!
>A mate called me out onto the quarterdeck aft of the asroc launcher and
>said look at that! There were 3 US sea kings line abreast screaming
>towards us!
>It took the skipper sometime to unruffle the yanks and a private joke
>was initiated by the Russians,joined in by Canadians (in full knowledge
>of its effect i am certain), designed to rattle our southern
>neighbours...a good time was had by almost all ! hooky
>I have a bunch more if anyone is interested!
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